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Author Gjesdal, Kristin

Title Gadamer and the legacy of German idealism / Kristin Gjesdal
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 235 pages)
Series Modern European philosophy
Modern European philosophy.
Contents Art, dialogue, and historical knowledge : appropriating Kant's Critique of judgment -- Beyond the third Critique : epistemological skepticism and aesthetic consciousness -- Overcoming the problems of modern philosophy : art, truth, and the turn to ontology -- History, reflection, and self-determination : critiquing the Enlightenment and Hegel -- Schleiermacher's critical theory of interpretation -- Normativity, critique, and reflection : the hermeneutic legacy of German Idealism
Summary The philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer interests a wide audience that spans the traditional distinction between European (continental) and Anglo-American (analytic) philosophy. Yet one of the most important and complex aspects of his work - his engagement with German Idealism - has received comparatively little attention. In this book, Kristin Gjesdal uses a close analysis and critical investigation of Gadamer's Truth and Method (1960) to show that his engagement with Kant, Hegel, and Schleiermacher is integral to his conception of hermeneutics. She argues that a failure to engage with this aspect of Gadamer's philosophy leads to a misunderstanding of the most pressing problem of post-Heideggerian hermeneutics: the tension between the commitment to the self-criticism of reason, on the one hand, and the turn towards the meaning-constituting authority of tradition, on the other. Her study provides an illuminating assessment of both the merits and the limitations of Gadamer's thought
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index
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Subject Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002. Wahrheit und Methode.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg 1900-2002
Gadamer, Hans-Georg.
SUBJECT Wahrheit und Methode (Gadamer, Hans-Georg) fast
Subject Idealism, German.
Hermeneutics.
Aesthetics.
hermeneutics.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Aesthetics
Hermeneutics
Idealism, German
Deutscher Idealismus
Hermeneutik
Idealism.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511769603
0511769601
9780511766534
051176653X